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Some additional results on the maintenance of kappa particles in Paramecium aurelia (stock 51) after loss of the gene K

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

G. H. Beale  and
Sheila McPhail
G. H. Beale
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh 9, Scotland
Sheila McPhail
Affiliation:
Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh 9, Scotland

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Additional data are presented on the maintenance of kappa particles in cells of P. aurelia (stock 51) after removal of the gene K. It is shown that kappa particles may be maintained for as long as twenty-seven fissions in the absence of K, or may disappear before eight fissions. Slight retardation in fission rate of paramecia quickly eliminates kappa particles. The bearing of these results on the metagon theory is discussed.

Type
Short Papers
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , June 1967 , pp. 369 - 373
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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